tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-113046682011-07-28T18:28:07.299-04:00One of the Scariest Things™ around!Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.comBlogger9461100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-11139898516497825592009-09-04T00:15:00.005-04:002009-09-04T00:51:31.539-04:00

I'm very, very confused. Very confused.Barack Obama wants to talk to schoolkids, making a speech that he hopes will be broadcast to classrooms all throughout the land.Also, parents are throwing fits.And for me, this doesn't add up.Many parents I know defend sending their kids to school-- viciously. Their ferocity make me wonder if they really actually agree with me about primary and secondary

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This week I made a rather random discovery on Facebook. I found the now grown-up daughter of my favorite professor ever. Okay, I admit... it was sort of intentional. He had a weird last name. Why did I look for her instead of for my favorite professor ever? For those of you who don't know me, my favorite professor ever died in 2002. He was only about 45 years old, and he left behind three

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My wife extruded another infant from her loins today, this day after her due date. The little girl is perky and... hungry. She's not much bigger than the last one, but like the last one she appears to be intact and functioning. Of course, I don't say much else about the kids on the blog anymore. So if you want to know more, you'll need to call. And if you know me, you'll know that I'm really

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So, I'm sure all of you have heard Barack Obama's statements about health care. I mean, he did spend almost an hour talking about it the other night. It's not his fault the news mostly ignored that and spent hours covering the three minutes at the end that he devoted to Professor Gates.Anyway, one of the major hallmarks of what is happening to "reform" health care are that, according to the

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-50435816655914753292009-06-30T23:56:00.001-04:002009-06-30T23:57:48.424-04:00

A year ago today, I drove to Rhoide Island for the conference that kicked off my first real job.A year from now I will be unemployed and have to make tough decisions about which child to eat first.Life's like that....

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in which I whine, make excuses, offer a Flintstones reference, and then try to sell you on pop culture.I'd like to write up some things about spiritual gifts, a little politics, some rants about how Americans shut down instead of engaging, and a few other random topics. But these days, spending eight hours a day staring at a computer to do work, I simply can't stand staring at a computer screen

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-77791475108193137902009-05-24T15:05:00.003-04:002009-05-24T15:44:41.704-04:00

Where have I been? I've been doing some maintenance on the blog, so what little time I've taken for the blog has gone into that. I figured there is enough to say today that I might as well actually post something.I've been sick for almost a month. The illness was playing with me-- two days bad, one day better, two days bad, and so on-- so it took me a while to be motivated to go to the doctor.

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I'm tired of having colds. Stupid colds. It's the rugrat who gives them to me, too. Grrrr....

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I need to share this story, which I e-mailed to a friend this week....Madelaine and I went for a walk on Tuesday, and as I walked on the bike path carrying her she started pointing to some of the trees and saying "Ihhhh? Ihhhh?" That's her way of saying "What is it?" I kept saying "Those are trees, chicken." After we went back and forth a few times she started becoming more insistent. I

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-30436568684017856442009-03-11T01:57:00.003-04:002009-03-11T02:03:07.150-04:00

Ever see a 2-bore rifle? Quick calculation..."bore" equals "gauge" when you are talking about large British rifles..."2-bore" equals "2-gauge"...gauge equals "number of balls that can be made to fit this diameter barrel from one pound of lead"...so, the final result...2-bore bullets weigh half a pound each.Ouch?And yes, it takes several hundred grains of powder to launch one of those.More ouch?

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Alive? Yes. Happy? Not really. Maybe, just maybe, I'll catch up on personal e-mails and then start posting again sometime soon. For now, I'm pondering life in the desert.

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My kid's nose was running something fiercely the other day, and it was right after we had snuggled down in the computer chair to listen to some music, so I did what any dad on a mission to relax and out of reach of a tissue would do. I pulled off my sock and wiped the kid's nose.Fast forward a week. I am chillin' on the sofa watching the TV. The kid comes up to me with a bunny rabbit doll and

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Yeah, that's me, with posting here anyway. I have been spending hours every day staring at a computer to do research. I can only take so much of it.I came across a fun blog recently, and I thought I should share it. The Aesthetic Elevator is about as far as most people would expect from my interests. I take that as proof that people just don't know me well enough. I've had my problems with

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We got the ice storm up here. Kind of cool. It was fun to see trees covered in a thin layer of ice. I'd like some nice snow, which would be fun because then I could ski the bike trail. But sadly I seem to be doomed to another winter of skycrap. At least up here the trees can hold half an inch of ice and not break in half, like that tree did when I was out taking pictures in the freezing rain

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Reading a book about American industry, I came across an interesting section about steel. The book had very good descriptions of various iron and steel processes. But I found a couple of errors. The book said that steel mills no longer static cast. Ever. My dad has spent 20 yeas doing just that, so somebody should tell him his job isn't real. Also, the book said that mini-mills make only

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Having been sick for a week and only wanting to "nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh," The Kid has become a voracious eater once again. Yesterday she downed a good sized ham sandwich, some cheesecake, roast beef, rice, and six ounces of whole milk. Yes! Whole milk! The Sippy Cup Strike of Late 2008 was broken. Today I don't know what she ate with her mother, but at supper time at Panera Bread* she had a good

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I've been around. Christmas was pretty much a bummer, because my wife got norovirus a few days before, and then the kid and I had it. Now my wife and I both have Colds. Personally, I think a dose of antibiotic is in order for me, but doctors are Scrooges about such things so I don't bother asking unless things get bad. So, yay! I got to spend my non-existent Christmas vacation not doing any

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Brian Jones has been re-posting some of his original blog's posts over at Megachurch Misfit. Go read. It's fun stuff.I've been busy doing crap. I had this C++ program for data analysis and it was getting absolutely out of hand. That was bad, becuase the data files were also getting out of hand. I've mostly restructured it, making it all more intuitive. Actually I split the programs, and

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-46464060758497844382008-12-06T00:52:00.004-05:002008-12-06T01:15:39.379-05:00

One of the greatest parts about Pennsylvania is that a huge chunk of the state, including the Appalachian Mountains and associated lowlands (meaning not out west), is basically ridge and valley province. (See here.) Some sections of the Great Valley are piedmont province for all practical purposes, but they are basically just in a darn big valley. In fact, the Great Valley isn't usually known

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Yes, he's coming back. I've been wandering over to his website every week or two waiting for the news. Why? I think it was because I found him to be refreshingly real and pointed, so I just had a lot of hope. According to his homepage, he's going to be reorganizing a bit and setting up three blogs. I'm not much interrested in church planting and growth, so I won't link to that one. But I've

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The first morning this week that we had snow, The Kid was very happy to see me when I woke up. What did she do? She came over and pulled on my leg and hand, urging me toward the patio door. When I got there, she pointed at the fresh coating of snow and, with a big smile, let me know that something unusual but quite delightful had happened. (She made the short-i sounding "Iiiih?" Iiii?" noise.

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It's winter! I'm so happy! I took my officemate for a walk today in the snow and ice. It could go without saying that he was a little less happy than I was. The air was a balmy 30 degrees when we left. The sidewalks were well plowed, but quite slippery in places from the sun thawing and freezing thin coats of snow. And a full-on snow squall kicked up as we headed toward the post office and

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I'm not liking my work right now. Nothing is going wrong, and that turns it into complete mental drudgery. If I wouldn't need to wear a suit and work insane hours, I would be a consultant. I could spend all of my time solving problems.I have been letting my kid walk some of the way from the apartment to the car. There is a nice section of walkway that is not in the parking lot. She has one

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My kid has been quite nice to me lately. On Monday I took my officemate to Wal-Mart for groceries. I had to bike home, and when I got home I sad to the baby that I needed to leave but I would be home soon. She looked at me with a little disappointment on her face, but then she smiled. She walked over to the front door, sat down, and started trying to put on her socks and shoes! I couldn't

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A friend of mine said what I wanted to say about conservative Christian reactions to the election.At This Party I said the rest of what I have to say.

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-88811356865763831482008-11-01T01:30:00.004-04:002008-11-01T01:51:39.331-04:00

On Fridays there isn't usually too much going on on the intertoobs. There also isn't anything on TV, at least not that I can find. It's almost like the channels think that people are supposed to be out and that all the other channels are showing such better programming that it's not worth trying. When I had two channels there was just as much on for Friday evening entertainment.My sister is

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And let me preface by saying... no, I don't think she is the only kid to ever do these things.She's now walking, and can take herself to her chair for supper, or to her bedroom for bedtime. That lets me do things like cook and gather books to read before bed.She is willing to fall asleep with me around once again. In fact, when she has been fed and watered and her mother isn't around (like last

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-11662418149430486982008-10-29T21:58:00.002-04:002008-10-29T21:59:15.525-04:00

Finally won the world series!My guess? Because I had a kid :) The last time was the first season after I was born.

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So what's the big deal with this constant reporting of the changes in the poll results? Sure, the numbers are moving around a little day to day. But I don't see the numbers moving in steps greater than the poll accuracy. If a margin of error is +/- 3 points, unsustained changes of fewer than 3 points are pretty much meaningless. For one sampling, there is no way to distinguish a real change

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-21435673455263629252008-10-28T15:54:00.002-04:002008-10-28T15:59:02.008-04:00

My fourth paper was published today. I was a data gopher, only working on that project on the side while I worked on my real project. (My real project is unpublishable, unless some kind soul from our collaboration decides to pick it up and wants to thank me for saving months of research time showing what does not work. That or if I pick it back up someday.)In true nerd form, I celebrated by

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[This post has been edited because I realized that I hadn't completed one or two thoughts.]What do you get when you mix Newt Gingrich, John Kerry, Billy Beane, and the New York Times? You get something about health care that makes sense.Data-driven baseball has produced surprising results. Michael Lewis writes in “Moneyball” that the Oakland A’s have won games and division titles at one-sixth the

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-48917340439078458092008-10-23T01:07:00.003-04:002008-10-23T01:32:55.257-04:00

I went to the water fountain near my office today to fill my water bottle. I do this a few times each day, and for a while I've been watching how other people use the fountain. (It is also along the way to the restrooms, the locker room, other people's offices, the loading dock/building kitchen, and so on. I go by it at least twice as often as I go to it.) I've noticed some things that seemed

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I found my headphones in a box that I hadn't unpacked!Did I finish unpacking? No, that would be too easy. I put everything back into the box and put the box back into the closet.

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I've been kind of bored lately. There's some stuff on my mind, and some other stuff on my mind, and some other stuff on my mind. And that other stuff, too. You see, that's what's so annoying about it. It's not that I can't talk about it, it's that I shouldn't. It's simply not stuff to post on a blog. And when I have a lot on my mind, I get bored, because I don't think about anything else,

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This rant is a rant after my own heart (or something just as catchy sounding that actually makes sense). It can't be mined for quotes because it's one giant quotable.The only thing I want to point out is that in the third paragraph (the one after the first quote) I think the author, Bob Herbert, either made a writing mistake or has no understanding of sarcasm.The idea that the U.S. won’t even

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My local congressional candidates weigh in on health care.The Democrat and the Republican both jaw on about insurance coverage and government doing this or that to help people have it. The Libertarian, on the other hand, seems to have a handle, even if only implicitly, on the problem of insurance masking heath care costs and making them unmanageable.Jim Fryman, LibertarianThere are many problems

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In the past two weeks I've had a chance to catch up with a few friends and otherwise from The Worst Church on earth, which I attended for a year when I was going to the affiliated Worst Private School (until I got pneumonia and had to drop out, proving to me that there is a loving God). This place was conservative legalism central and had no respect for me. Likewise, I'll take on a pen of angry

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From the AP of all places. Trillions in stock market value — gone. Trillions in retirement savings — gone. A huge chunk of the money you paid for your house, the money you're saving for college, the money your boss needs to make payroll — gone, gone, gone.Whether you're a stock broker or Joe Six-pack, if you have a 401(k), a mutual fund or a college savings plan, tumbling stock markets and

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I've added a link on the sidebar to a blog I found a few months ago, Mike Beidler's The Creation of an Evolutionist. People who grew up as young earth creationists and who later "jumped ark" so to speak will find a lot in common with him, especially reading the Step in the Journey series that he has on his sidebar. Of particular interest to me are the posts mid-late in the series on John Walton's

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A news story about creativity and mood disorders.Terence Ketter is professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford University.Ketter and his colleagues compared a healthy control group with bipolar patients, depression patients, and a control group of graduate students in writing and the arts.They found that people with bipolar disorder scored better -- up to about 50 percent higher --

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My kid is in this fuzzy area between being able to walk and not being able to walk. How many steps are needed in order to count? Must the trip end with some stability? Do half sideways steps count? How big must the steps be? Is a "step" the motion of one foot in front of the other, or the motion of one foot in front of the other and then the other in front of the one foot?Friday the kid took

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George Bush sings U2?Hilarious.

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It's real. But wacky. I mispronounce some of the French words mentioned while I am speaking English, but not while I am speaking French. When I'm in "English mode" I don't want to pronounce French words as the French do. For one, it leads people to think I'm haughty (which is true, but why flaunt it?*). For another, French has some pretty weird sounds. And too often people "correct" me,

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Jon Stewart speaks his mind, which includes some of mine. It gets better as it goes along. I dare you to watch the whole thing and then tell me that humor isn't a good way to tell the truth.

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This is too good to pass up.La Guardia is one of the few airports in the country where pilots use land markers instead of instruments to guide their landings, along with Seattle (a shopping mall) and Washington (a river). Shea Stadium, which from the sky looks like a blue circle with a green center, is a primary runway guidepost. For one of the more common landing routes, pilots are instructed to

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I've been pretty quiet about this economic thing, save for a draft of this post that I sent to friend. Now revised, you get to read it.I would be happy for the government to drop a trillion dollars to keep the economy going. That's not chicken change, but the people who print the money can swing it. They'll lose that much in tax revenue if the economy goes down really badly anyway. And I

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-26605017757169161542008-09-30T12:24:00.000-04:002008-09-30T14:38:16.582-04:00

Dear Ice Cream Manufacturers,I know that you're playing some sort of psychological game by trying to keep ice cream prices from increasing too much same. People buy ice cream by the container, not by volume, and you would sell less if you increased the price instead of decreasing the container size. But there is something bothering me. I do buy ice cream by volume, and you're screwing with my

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It was a crazy week.I had some problems with my programs at work. And just now I realized that I didn't correct one of the places where I had the units wrong. Curses. See what you navel gazers did to me?I got new glasses, which rock. What I mean by that is that the first two days they made me feel like there were rocks behind my eyes. Oi! It's nice to be able to see clearly again, without

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My mom, smart cookie that she is, reminded me that if the kid can't suck against the sippy cup's leak preventing valve, I could just take out the valve. My response-- "Duh! Why didn't I think of that?"My kid is now working through a four ounce cup of water like it's the best thing since sliced bread. By work on, I don't mean only drink, mind you. My sock is soaked.

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-3521451521841566402008-09-24T00:41:00.002-04:002008-09-24T00:41:47.726-04:00

Tonight I got home in 25 minutes, counting unlocking the bike.

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Riding my bike to and from work today, I realized something. There is a time warp in the holler where the rail trail starts. Clues?1) It is often misty and cool down there after the sun goes behind the hill. Going down the hill the little valley looks just like a humid summer day, but it's actually a light fog forming in the cooling air.2) The temperature drops. Always a sign of paranormal

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-16831789168157742602008-09-22T12:19:00.000-04:002008-09-22T14:20:17.497-04:00

This top story in today's news is just one example of why my wife makes fun of the locals.

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This item basically has not made the mainstream national news, unles you count the depths of New York Times and Fox News blogs, but I think it is important enough to share around.Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is trying to force a long-shot legal showdown in the Texas Supreme Court to keep Barack Obama and John McCain off the November ballot.The issue is whether both major parties

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A few weeks back I ranted about how I find it foolish to use artificial environments in parenting. I found something today that supports this idea. In this article about kids being picky eaters, we see that having kids cook has benefits for their diet.There's other good stuff in there.

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In the New York Times on Sunday, Thomas Friedman took on the McCain campaign for its desire to drill for oil to solve our energy problems, and even a few other things. Imagine for a minute that attending the Republican convention in St. Paul, sitting in a skybox overlooking the convention floor, were observers from Russia, Iran and Venezuela. And imagine for a minute what these observers would

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I know some people who speak and read German. Heck, I have a friend who recently moved there, his wife soon to follow (read my blog links to find them). Most of these people have at some point expressed to me at least passing interest in our quickly dying Pennsylvania dialect of German. The language as a whole is steaming rather nicely in Amish and Mennonite waters, but the rest of us are

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The program is basically done. In other words, I have a basic frameowrk that can be expanded. I can even draw dots with arros through them to represent my simulated system. Take that, world!I made a huge old crock pot of pulled pork for our small group meeting tonight. That was fun. I ran out of my secret ingredient, though, so what I ended up with tasted mostly like bay and thyme.I've finally

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-66528872074842229852008-09-10T01:53:00.004-04:002008-09-10T02:22:15.268-04:00

Over the past week, I've learned a lot of C++. Much of it isn't fact knowledge. It is mostly experience knowledge, which comes from writing a couple hundred lines of code per day (with a hundred that actually works). A week ago I wanted to use C++ syntax to write code organized like it was Fortran 95. Now I'm feeling the subtle call of Java and turning everything I think about into an

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-40071521261920497652008-09-07T23:54:00.003-04:002008-09-08T00:09:40.785-04:00

Eric and Bethany have a blog up, and I've added it to the sidebar. Be nice to them, people. They're good folk.I recently met a Viking, and I'm adding his blog to the list as well. (How, you ask, did I meet a Viking? I started going to the church where he is the pastor.)Brian Jones has stopped blogging, so I've moved his website from the blogs to the links. His shots across the bow will be

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-49286364709125472812008-09-07T02:26:00.003-04:002008-09-07T02:30:55.955-04:00

Did you just get more than one copy of the last post? Did you recently get a post from 2006? If you answered yes to either of these questions, I have a request on your behalf-- turn off your feeder. I'm going to be doing some blog maintenance and, if you don't heed my advice, it might get a bit ugly for you.I'll let you know when I'm done. It might be a couple of weeks. In the meantime,

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What have I been doing lately?I went to Allentown for two days, last Sunday evening through Tuesday evening. My sincere apologies to those of you who I told that I would tell if I were coming. Lacking foresight, I didn't have your phone numbers with me, and internet access was sparse so I couldn't get to my online cache. Feel free to mock me for being a doodie head. I'll see you later this

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Once at our last church, way way back when our small group was still a Sunday school class, we went through one of those asinine Christian finance books. I think many of you know the type. These are the books that Christians go to only to end up finding that God has no secret magical way for Christians to handle their money. (I've ranted before about churches disappointing people with this sort

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-19620729610673047902008-08-23T14:31:00.004-04:002008-08-23T14:39:13.990-04:00

I started working my way through some local sandwich shops, and my the place was a doozy. They make junk food sandwiches. Yes, that means exactly what I said. The place takes a roll and puts on things like cheesesteak meat, gyro meat, chicken strips, mozzarella sticks, onion rings, jalapeno poppers, and bacon. They've got a variety of high fat, high salt sauces. And all of the sandwiches

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-22090070521820382592008-08-22T21:47:00.002-04:002008-08-22T21:54:52.028-04:00

If you forget your helmet, and then you realize you forgot your helmet, you should not spend so much time thinking about your helmet that you stop paying attention to the rocky path on which you and your slightly too far inflated tires are careening. You could end up nearly on your face in the middle of the rocky path, glasses in the grass somewhere, a cut on your knee, and your bike somewhere

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-26351921144950689092008-08-20T10:18:00.007-04:002008-08-20T10:36:48.554-04:00

Oh my goodness.... Apparently it is not only discussions of student achievement that suffer from the "argue about everything but what is relevant" syndrome. It's anything in the entire educational system.In this article about corporal punishment in schools that allow it, we read from Alice Farmer, who wrote a report on corporal punishment for HRW and the ACLU, "When you talk to local school

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-49979097956794894552008-08-18T21:38:00.004-04:002008-08-18T21:46:43.801-04:00

I thought about posting this on This Party, but I figured I'd put it here instead (because who reads This Party?).Today on NPR there was a big deal being made of Barak Obama deciding that he will announce his vice presidential choice by sending a text message to everyone who signs up to get one. The commentator I heard even went so far as to call it a display of "mass democracy." I've seen

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-41177513767189642392008-08-17T18:01:00.005-04:002008-08-17T18:04:45.732-04:00

We had some friends over this weekend, and it was good. It's always nice to catch up with brainy friends who don't mind stirring the pot in some of the ways that I like to do it. This weekend I bemoaned the fact that we live so far apart we can't cause trouble together. Oh, well.So, I'm going to go for a short bike ride... maybe?Otherwise, not much is happening.

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-24802980789929977652008-08-14T00:04:00.002-04:002008-08-14T00:38:57.263-04:00

I'd like to say the Olympics are upon us, but they aren't. We are, however, being treated to our leap year dose of swimming, basketball, volleyball, track, and gymnastics, along with all the associated scandals. This year there is a new twist-- a diplomatic suck-up French-run IOC trying not to offend the asinine Chinese government. You know, the Chinese government that, for exmaple, promised

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-65654412785265234832008-08-12T11:40:00.004-04:002008-08-12T11:53:46.021-04:00

I love mini wheat cereal squares. They've been my nearly exclusive cereal for a few years. And I think I need to bid them goodbye.For a few months I've been feeling a little bit loopy after I eat them, more as time goes on. Last week I had them for a few days straight, then I didn't have any more. In about twenty-four hours I had a raging headache. I don't get headaches. Granted, there was

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-52312571343806486692008-08-10T22:40:00.002-04:002008-08-10T22:53:10.995-04:00

Number of other bicycle riders encountered: 8 Number in ROTC uniforms: 1Number without helmets: 8Number wearing headphones: 4Number talking on a cell phone: 1Number texting: 0And that, friends, is why I've become part of an annoying and lawless breed of daredevils.Actually, I'm approaching the bike the same way I walk and the same way I drive. I'm using my new mode of transportation solely to

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-84027873838243821862008-08-10T14:09:00.004-04:002008-08-10T14:50:42.731-04:00

My kid had her birthday. I endured my wife's parents' never-ending sociopolitical commentary (do they have any hobbies? I mean, if all you know of me is my blogs, you might wonder the same thing, but if you know me in person you know that my life as a whole is much more diverse) and constant tinkering with the AC (new theory: when the bulk of your life is centered around what is liberal and

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-35373002328386926852008-08-08T10:26:00.004-04:002008-08-08T11:06:55.865-04:00

I finally got my bike helmet, so I can start riding to work... once my legs are in shape to do it. And that's a good thing, too.Where we live now, we don't have a highway for me to get to work. People like to say highway driving is not good on "short trips" under ten miles, but that is wrong. There's no magical switch that makes a car get city gas mileage on a highway trip of 9.9 miles and

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-83634205038115758972008-08-07T18:38:00.003-04:002008-08-07T18:42:58.571-04:00

I just heard the most asinine thing on the news. After talking about the President going to China for the Olympics, the reporter saw fit to throw in a rant about how the White House press plane was held up for a few hours upon landing, and how this is not normal "diplomatic protocol." And you know what? I'll cry a river for the man when he shows me his red passport, or for that matter when he

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-25543126436742406752008-08-06T21:45:00.003-04:002008-08-06T21:48:33.761-04:00

I know that most of my readers were never there, but this sounds a little like a normal small group meeting back when.And why do I have a feeling I was the one who always started it? Oh, yeah. Now I remember. It's because I always started it.

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I normally don't post pictures in my blog, but I'm going to make an exception this time. Why? Because I anticipate people asking (or more like posticipate, because I've had inquiries already).Anyway, meet my new bicycle.At first glance, it looks like your everyday bike. It isn't quite the stock version, though. The stem and handlebars are not the standard for this model; the regular ones were

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Having stunned my more coordinated friends by earning a Camp Archery Association ranking of Yeoman at age 10, I found this article to be fascinating. (If you don't have an account to read the New York Times, go make one. It is free.)Back in 1989 and 1990 I went to summer camp. It was fun, but I was always sort of out of place in the athletic competition aspect. My first year I did archery

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My kid has ben quite active lately. She's running at the mouth, in a noisy sort of way. I can't speak for my wife, who might hear other things. I've only identified a few short utterances that occur regularly."El-oh-da-da!" is something I hear almost every day when I arrive home from work. Saying "Hello!" to her at other times will sometimes produce an "el-oh" but that is rare."Ma-ma-ma" is

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Now that my new work e-mail is running, there still seems to be a bit of a circus to get it working. We have multiple mail servers that do not play nicely with one another for the first few hours after your account is created. After that, it will settle down. So I'm told.Of course, now that I have two new addresses and one new alias (all forwarding to the same server), I will continue to use

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I"m about ready to throw this darnfangled MagicJack out the window. For those of you not in the know, the MagicJack is a "use the internet for our phone service and save money" plan that I've not been favoring since the day I heard it. Why don't I like it? The stupid thing hijacks the computer's sound. The point of this is so that a computer microphone or headset can be used to make phone

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-40500580194102178342008-07-23T23:05:00.001-04:002008-07-23T23:20:08.890-04:00

I'm annoyed at the way car companies are trying to sell their inefficient vehicles. I first saw GM commercials doing it, and last night I saw a Ford commercial doing it. What are they doing? They start by talking about high gas costs, but then they try to sell vehicles based on the number of miles one can drive on a single a tank of gas.My first problem is that those two things are not related

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-83868044641855296602008-07-22T13:31:00.004-04:002008-07-22T13:54:36.475-04:00

I've been bike shopping. One of my main concerns is all of these bikes with floppy wheels and chintzy aluminum frames. We have four bike shops in our area (minus the BMX and skate shop and the recumbent shop). I've been to two before today. One sells high end stuff. The other sells the lower and mid level brand name stuff.Don't get me wrong. The low and middle brand name stuff is fine for

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On this fine evening, around the time most of the traffic lights in the suburbs of the sleepy town went to blink mode*, I decided to venture to the two grocery stores that are open 24 hours but that are not owned by a large evil corporate retail chain. I'm glad I did.Wegmans was to be my source of tea. The tea selection there sucked utterly. It probably sucked utterly because the place has the

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An ode to the old fashioned playground.People think I suck because I let my kid fall over onto the carpet. I figure it'll make a normal human being out of her.

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Sitting down at the iMac in my cold office with a full tummy and playing Beethoven's Fifth Piano concerto while reading the GROMACS manual.I like science.

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My new town's central area* is very pedestrian friendly. How can I tell?1) Crosswalks are wide, well ramped, and well marked.2) Crosswalks are plentiful.3) Functioning buttons for walk signals.4) Pedestrian signals light a second or two before the street signals.Item 4 is new to me, but it's pure genius. Many of the streets do not allow turns on red (both left and right; there are a good

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Brian Jones is planning to blog about something dear to my heart-- frustrations and reflections on concepts of "spiritual disciplines" and not being good enough. I have my own reason for disliking these sorts of books he mentions in teh first post of the series. I think they miss a lot of reality. They point us to how to be perfect Christians, which we can't be. They are a good way to scare

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When I was a kid my working class family had its share of free time. Dad's job at the steel mill gave him a few weeks off every year. He used some of that time for single days off and some of it for longer stretches. Money was tight, so when we did leave home we often spent a few hours visiting the really fun places close to home. In less than 90 minutes we could be in Hershey, Valley Forge,

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Connecticut does not border the Atlantic Ocean. Contrary to common wisdom, Rhode Island and New York share a water border starting within Block Island Sound and continuing out to the Atlantic Ocean. Connecticut doesn't have a chance. While it does have bays and ports and such, they all open into one of the sounds, not the Atlantic Ocean proper. To get to the Atlantic from there, one must cross

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News stories like this.In other news, the Nittany Lion has apparently been getting busy with Bucky Badger.

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Moving up here was wild. I apologize to those who lacked perspective while we were moving and thought I wasn't doing anything except goofing off when we were packing and loading the truck. I did drive the truck for a few hours, cramming my legs under the dash in ways I wouldn't have been able to do with tired muscles. Also, our unloading crew was on the order of half the hauling capacity of

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I'm alive. I'm connected to the world. At work anyway. With an iMac. Home might or might not be connected. It should be connected soon. And with that, my coffee break (without coffee) ends, and I return to reading journal articles.

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We're going. Tonight before I go to sleep I need to pack up the computer. Tomorrow is clean-up, drive, and start moving in day. Sunday is finish moving in day. I took one last drive tonight, retracing my old route home from our friends' house in Bath. That route was where I honed my nighttime driving skills, which I practiced before daytime driving (due to low traffic at night), and it

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My kid threw what is probably her first tantrum.We've been packing this week, and the kid has been a little edgy. If I were ten and half months old and my world was being disassembled around me, I'd probably be a little concerned, too. Kids aren't just all about eating and toys. They might prefer what they learn by putting things into their mouths, but they notice a lot of what's going on

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-39245074834707294302008-06-25T17:20:00.000-04:002008-06-25T17:21:48.341-04:00

Just look and you'll get the idea.

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Carry around a digital SLR and you're a magnet that attracts everything wrong with amateur photographers you know. That's my experience, anyway.People don't want to talk about composing images, beyond thirds and diagonals and other so-called rules that every good photographer I can name breaks repeatedly. They don't want to talk about photographers or photographs, least of all you, yours,

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After tonight's rain, I decided to go to the grocery store for one last late-night trip. I've been going to Redner's at night for a couple of years, taking care of grocery business. Tonight I didn't have much business to care for. We needed a couple of things to make meals for the rest of the week. I also needed a couple of nighttime snacks (for me, suppers) to last the week. And I wanted to

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At Burger King today, I had a conversation with my friend Emma. Emma is almost five, and lots of fun. Of course, I don't remember the conversation exactly, so I'm going to re-write it to highlight the major themes.Emma: "Did you see the fluke? Did it scare you?"Me: "See the what?"My sister: "Huh?"Emma: "The fluke. It scared us but everything was okay."Me: "You said fluke?"Sister: "Like

Natehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00618854813842730346noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11304668.post-39114807734973031462008-06-21T02:06:00.003-04:002008-06-21T02:36:34.066-04:00

I've added a link to passive aggressive notes.com. This website is an absolute hoot. This is my favorite that I've seen so far.I updated Jordana's blog link. She changed blog services 18 months ago, halting work on The Pregnant Waddle and starting up Seize the Mommy! For some reason I kept forgetting to link to the new blog. This has, of course, set up habits among our gang of college

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Most of you who know me might not have thought about it, but I'm a weird combination of introvert and people person. I like people, singular, a lot more than I like people, plural. Everywhere I go I know a lot of people, like some sort of social butterfly, which I am definitely not. That's actually because people mean a lot to me. I've spent twenty-five years bemoaning my "lack" of friends,

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It turns out that my research work was dead-on and my adviser either told me the wrong thing to do or I didn't understand him right. My colleagues have come to my rescue and told me the proper way to proceed. And I feel like a total douche. All this stuff is in the journal articles we have. I read those and didn't get it. Then I had one person say about fifty words to me and now I basically

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